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TTTE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 26. 1915. ADVANTAGES FOUND BIG FIGHT CHAMPION BUYS AUTOMOBILE IX CHAMPIONSHIP TIME. Chalmers Six-40 $1350 OF Agricultural Department Bulletin Shows How Cost is Regulated. in HIGHWAY BED BIG FACTOR ROADS BRICK , - - ", i Via1 f - fiA a- Rapid Increase of Xew Type of Road Is Noted Throughout Country. Easy Traction, Durability and Maintenance Are iavorable. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 25. A rapid Increase In the mileage of vitri lied brick roads in this country is pre dicted in a new bulletin or the United States'Department of Agriculture. Such roads, it is said, possess three distinct advantages. First, they are durable under all traffic conditions; second, they afford easy traction and moderately good foothold for horses; and third, they are easy to maintain and keep clean. On the other hand, they are unques tionably expensive to construct and the effort to reduce the high first cost fre quently results in inferior construction and consequent defects. Local Conditions Affect Co. The cost of a brick pavement depends bo much upon so many variable factors such as the locality, freight rates and the distance from brick kilns that it is not possible to make any definite esti mates. The cost of the rough grading, 'how ever, should be considered entirely apart from the cost of the pavement, for the grading- -would have to be done no matter what kind of a road was to be built. Excluding this item, bulletin 246, already mentioned, furnishes the following formula as a rough guide for the probable expense of a brick road with a six-inch - concrete foundation and suitable grades: Cost per square yard, 1.90 L, .213 C, .138 S. .157 A, .040 B. Delivery of Materials Assumed. In this formula C equals cost of ce ment a barrel, S equals cost of sand a cubic yard, A equals cost of coarse aggregrate a cubic yard, B equals cost of paving bricks for 1000, and L. equals cost of labor an hour. Thus, if labor costs 25 cents an hour, the labor. cost a square yard ot pavement will be 3.93 times 25 cents, or 48.25 cents. The cost of the cement a square yard will be .213 times the price of a barrel and eo on with the other items. It is assumed in this formula that all materials are delivered on the work. About 10 per cent should be allo-wed for wear on tools and machinery, and for every inch subtracted or added to the thickness of the foundation theie will be a corresponding difference Of 8 to 12 cents per square yard. Uniformity In Size Is Necessity. Paving bricks should be uniform in Fize, reasonably perfect in shape, tough in order to resist crushing, hard in order to resist abrasion, and uniformly graded in order that the pavement may wear evenly. With good paving brick, the crush ing strength varies from 10,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds a square inch when the load is applied uniformly over the entire top surface of the test specimen. In uso, however, paving brick is sel dom called upon to withstand a pres sure of over 2000 pounds to the square inch so that this factor is not one of great importance. A more important test is known as the rattler or abrasion test. In this the bricks are subjected to destructive influences similar to those encountered in actual service, and the effects re semble those which traffic may be ex pected to produce upon the completed pavement. Loss In Weight Ascertained. Briefly the test consists of inclosing JO dried bricks in a steel barrel in "which there are also placed a number of cast-iron spheres. Ten of these spheres weigh each seven and one-half pounds. Enough smaller ones weigh ing a little less than a pound are added to make the total weight approximate ly 300 pounds. The barrel is then re volved at the rate of 30 revolutions a minute for an hour. At the end of that time the bricks are taken out and weighed, and their loss in weight ascertained. In this test good paving brick will lose from 18 to 24 per cent of its weight. In drawing up specifications for the brick to be used on any road, it is, however, desirable to specify the mini mum as well as the maximum loss of weight which a sample may sustain In order to prevent too great a difference between the softest brick that is ac ceptable and the hardest that may be supplied. Road Bed Character Important. Equally Important with the character f the brick is the character of the road bed on which it Is to be laid. The four essentials for the road bed are thorough drainage, firmness, uniform ity in grade and cross section, and ade quate shoulders. Where the first can be obtained in no other way it may be necessary to lift the road considerably above the surrounding land. Firmness is secured, if the road has been prop erly drained, by making certain that the road bed is thoroughly compact. The subgrade must be repeatedly rolled and reshaped until the desired grade is secured. The shoulders should never be less than four feet wide and not infrequent ly one is made sufficiently wide to form an earth roadway parallel to the brick pavement. Strong, desirable clurbing is neces sary for all brick pavements in order to prevent the marginal brick from be coming displaced, which event would result in deterioration, finally spread ing over the entire pavement. Prop erly constructed curbing, on the other hand, holds the bricks together and en ables them to present a combined re sistance. Portland cement and etone are probably the best materials to use. M-VXY EW CHASSIS ARE OCT Cantilever Spring Shows Growth, While Others Revert to Type. "Approximately a total ' of 100 . dif ferent chassis models will be produced by American makers of motorcars dur ing 1916." says E.r V. Hartford, presi dent of the Hartford Suspension Com pany, makers of the well-known Hart ford Shock Absorber. "These models already shown away in advance of the coming shows, reveal their mechanical tendencies in many ways. "Of course it goes without saying that, taking these 100 1916 chassis, the semi-elliptic front spring is used on nearly all of them, and that E6.52 per cent of them use the popular three quarter elliptic rear spring. I note a return to the long, flexible spring, which is really ajversion to type, only the modern users ol this type of spring use it in a very much lighter and flat ter form. Indeed. Platform springs are only used on 5.8 per cent of the chassis and eetni-elliptic rear spring on 14.49 per cent of the chassis. "The cantilever spring is used on 21.73 per cent of the chassis a rather surprising growth for a spring that has only been in use for two years." JESS W1LLAHD SOO AFTER BllIXG A COLE EIGHT. Jess Willard, world's champion, broke another record in the purchase of an automobile. Just 20 min utes after he Jumped into a big Cole Eight, the company had a roll of bills that represented the price of the car. and a telegram was on the way to Los Angeles to the local Cole dealer to deliver an "Eight" to Mrs. Willard. This all happened at Indianapolis, during the stay in that city of the "101 Wild West Show." with which Willard is now connected. ILLS ARE LAIDTOVVAR Commodity Manufacturers Get Materials From Auto Men. PACKARD PRICE TO RISE lrces That Keep on Lookout for Needed Supplies Are Doubled at Many Factories, in. East. Carbon Steel Cost Jumps. Not a few of the automobile dealers and distributors of Portland are 'com plaining that they cannot get deliveries from the factories. Most of them blame the war for a strange condition that seems to have enveloped almost the entire automobile trade. Those facto ries that have immense quantities of materials on hand are in much better position to fill their orders promptly, but unless the scarcity of materials is remedied soon, they, too, will 'be in a sad plight. It seems that most of the factories in the East are busy making commodities of one sort and another to be used in the war zone. These factories have gobled up many of the materials that go into the modern auto, and as a result the automobile manufacturers are hav ing a hard time to "make ends meet." Many factories have put on double forces of buyers to keep after the mate rials. Price of Packard! to Rise. Frank C. Riggs, distributor for the Packard, received an announcement last week that the price on the new Pack ards would be raised between $150 and $200 and that it might go even higher. This increased price is made necessary, the Packard officials say, because ma terials have jumped "sky high." They report that carbon steel has gone up $4 a ton and that brass and copper have jumped correspondingly," said E. J. Clark, vice-president of the Frank C. Eiggs Company. "The cost of the aluminum alone is now $50 more a car, and the trimming leather costs the factory $17.50 more than it did when the price of the new Packarda was first announced. Those who have already ordered . their cars will be given the advantage of the original price, but the price this week has increased $200. Parkud "12" Demonstrator Comlac "The regular Packard '12' demon strator is due to leave the factory today for Portland. The first Twin-Six cars out of the regular factory production were shipped from the Packard plant in Detroit Wednesday of last ween, rne fact that the entire factory has een rearrane-ed to handle" an enormously in creased production in accordance with new standards of scientmc manage ment caused an unavoidable delay in the initial shipments. "But "the management states that the ears will soon be coming through In volume. Fifteen demonstrators, which were brought through in aavance ot the regular factory production, have rolled up a total of -more than 150,000 miles." 828 AUTOS REGISTERED GAIN" SHOWN IX STATE FOR, 30-DAY PERJOD. Easern Oregva Counties Make Biggest Increase Between Angnit id ana September 15. That 28 automobiles were regis tered in Oregon during the 30 days ending September 15 is shown by the statistical statements prepared last week by M. O. Wilkina, publisher of the Automobile Record- Of the new registrations S47 were 1916 cars and 206 ot the number were old models. Eighteen trucks and two electric ve hicles were registered. For a similar period ending August 15Mr. Wilkins' report shows 417 1915 models and 138 1915 models, or a total new business of 555 cars, making an increase for the month of 67 new cars. These figures relate to the new au tomobiles passing into registration for the first time. This increase is noted from the report to come from Eastern Oregon principally. The increase over last month in Union County was from 10 to 32. Wasco County from 12 to 15, Mal beur County from five to nine, Sher man County from three -to seven. In the central part of the state Marion County shows an increase from 31 to 46-. Washington County from 10 to 2ff, Linn County from 14 to 18. Clack amas from 19 to 25. Douglas County slxowst a. decrease from 17 to nine, Jackson from 25 to 16, Josephine from six to two. while Klamath, a little more than holds its own with seven and eignt. However, the principal increase in business occurs in Multnomah Coun ty, where tue automobile trade has been the most active in demonstrat ing new cars. Here we find the fig ure increasing from 188 to 257, an in crease of 69 cars. Commercial car business shows a loss, dropping from 16 cars, for 30 days ending August 16, to 12 cars for the same period ending September 15. TEIXOWSTOXE IIULi:S PLEASE Assistant Secretary of State Pro poses Auto Tonr or Parks. HELENA. Mont.. Kept. 25. According to Stephen T. Mather, assistant Sec retary of the Interior, who passed through Helena en route to Glacier Park, the regulations governing auto mobiles in Yellowstone National Park worked smoothly this year. The num ber of visitors to the Yellowstone Park this year was more than double that of 1914. The total last year was 20,088 and this year 47.368. The larger number of tourists went into the park over the Oregon Short Line, the entries via Yel lowstone being 29.992. The number of machines entering the park was 904, carrying 3342 passengers. Mr. Mather said he would take up with the Amer ican Automobile Association when he returned to the East the question of having a large party of Eostern auto tourists visit all the National Parks next year. The plan Is to visit those in Colorado first, then north, to the Yel lowstone and. Glacier and west to the coast. Aberdeen and lloqnlam Connected. ABERDEEN1, Wash., Sept. 25. (Spe cial.) After several years of agitation for a hard surface inter-city highway. Aberdeen and Hoquiam will be con nected with such a roadway Monday. This will be made possible by the com pletion of the Washington-street pave ment' work, which has been going on here for the past month. The job em braces seven blocks of paving. A gravel, roadway was built a mile and a half, of the way six months ago. The Hoquiam half of the road has been completed for some time. This road forms a part of the Olympic Highway. NOVEL AUTO IS LIKED IOSS EL "ALL-YEAR. CAR' MEETS WITH BIO DEMAND. Machine Has Divided Front Seat and Only Ttvo Doors and Can Be Entirely Closed In. "The increasing announcements of so-caiied convertible cars justify the prediction of last Winter that Kissel's invention, the 'All-Year Car," would be generally imitated," says H. C. Skinner, manager of the Pacific Kissel Kar branch. "Therefore, a review of that great forward step in automobile body design is perhaps timely. "In May. 1914. tho Kissels introduced for the first time in America the tour ing body design known "as the corridor car, a car with a divided front seat and only two entrance doors. The favorable reception of this two-door design sug gested the 'All-Year Car," a plan scarce ly feasible in connection with, a four- door touring body, because of the necessarily makeshift appearance of the forward part of the car with the top attached. ' "The 'All-Year Car,' which is now an established Kissel trade name, was first announced in August. 1014, and deliv eries began almost immediately after wards. It was an instantaneous sue cess and constantly grew in favor un til, at both New York and Chicago last Winter, it was one of the most widely discussed features of the big National automobile shows, among members of the industry as well as the public at large. "It kept the Kissel plant running overtime during the usually lean months of Winter, and thfs season's in dications are that it will be in universal demand. The new Kissel designs in clude a coupe as well as a Sedan top. Both are built In the Kissel shops as an integral part of the car, which is largely the reason they are so dlfer ent from any other convertible type. The 'All-Year Car is just as complete, convenient and refined as a touring car. as it is handsome, comfortable and practical as a closed coch." IOWANS REACH PORTLAND IN HUDSON AFTER DELIGHTFUL 3000- MILE TRIP. tjs t - j s : I x &fv rfT "S&i H?f1 c$ frs&i? If is HUDSON CAR AND IOWA PARTY OX WAY TO LOS ANGELES. Littered with dust after a 3000-mile- drive from Neola, la-, a husky 1913 Hudson arrived In Portland last week en route to Los Angeles, where its occupants, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Witt and their son, Leroy C. Witt, will pass the Winter before returning home. The Iowans followed the Yellowstone trail across to the Northwest and found it' in splendid condition for travel. One stream in North Dakota was too high to ford and they were comp elled to take a few chances by driving over an open railroad bridge, but they are alive to tell the tale. At Spokane the Witts were joined by their son, Fred H. Witt, Police Judge of Spokane, and Mrs. Witt. Then the five Witta launched forth on a delight ful tour through Glacier National Park. Montana. As they pulled out of Portland via the Terwillger boulevard, the Witts were confident that they would reach Los Angeles without trouble, for. they hadn't experienced a suggestion of mechanical difficulty in the 3000 miles driven before reaching Portland. The Distinguishing Marks of a Distinguished Motor Car No other car is so easily distinguished as a Chalmers Six-40 because no other car is so distinguished. Only one other American car has fenders like It and its price is $5000. There is no other radiator that has just the Chalmers fine lines so high and narrow and distinctive. CHALMERS bodies are neither sprayed, dipped nor baked. Twenty-. one operations are required to bring them up to Chalmers "Quality First" standards. No Car Has Better Finish Chalmers finish is superfine "coach" work and no car can have better. The body is carefully prepared for the finish by the process known as sand-blasting. The colors are then laid on by men who hare mastered the artistic possibilities of paint. Comfortable as Any Priced Car No car at any price can be more comfort able than the Chalmers Six -40. The rear springs are of special vanadium steel construction and are 57 inches long the longest springs on any car in the world at the price. But springs alone will not give comfort m a motor car; neither will upholstery. It takes just as much thought and manu facturing skill to build comfort into a car as it does to make it mechanically perfect. The Chalmers "Six-40 seven-passenger model is a big. luxurious car. roomy enough for seven grown-ups to lean back and ride at ease. It is as comfortable as your favorite arm chair. The deep seats which are upholstered in leather and the deep side-walls furnish a support for the body that eliminates all strain and fatigue from motoring. Un usually wide doors enable people to step into this car easily without having to turn sideways. The Pride of Distinction There is a certain pride of distinctiveness in the ownership of your Chalmers Six-40. You have the consciousness of being well groomed: your car's apparel is of the best weave and fabric. The prestige of rank and accepted style surrounds it. 20 More Power The powerful valve-in-head motor is the same type with which DcPalma's and Resta's $20,000 racers were equipped when they won the Indianapolis and Chicago races at the undreamed of averages of 90, 93 and 102 miles an hour. The performance of this motor is simply marvelous. It is the "20 per cent more power motor --the motor all Europe was using when the war stopped operations there. It has the pull of a locomotive a giant's strength in a man's body. It is "trigger-quick" and gets away like a racer. It is always eagerly pulling, like a high strung setter on the leash. New Service to Owners Every Cbulumja dealer noa glim to etx.ru bayer f m Chalmen car m Service Coupon Book, each coupon good for m aefattkt anutmnl of eer at aoa Chaamrm The only comparisons ever made with Chalmers cars are made with higher priced cars either foreign or American. And this is espe cially true of die Chalmers Six-40 at $1350 the lowest price at which Chalmca Quality has era been sold. The Chalmers Club Eoerv Chairmen owner S) ineilej lojotm tho Cholmen Obi. Eorry member receioa regularly wtihoui charge "The ChaLmn Clubman", and a membership card coramertd far the oumer to the comrtLok of Chaimtmnmerentatniaoaeiyuiotm. Qmrnhtr fhmt H. L. Keats Auto Co, Broadway at Burnside Portland Seattle " Let yottr next car be a Chalmers " CLUTCH IS FEATURE Model on Maxwell Is Lasting and Smooth-Running. LUBRICATION IS BY BATH Leather Facing Is Disinseil With and Almost Indestructible Fabric Is Substituted Simplicity of Cones Is Commended. "On. of the few original mechanical features of the new automobile models, now g-ainlng- peneral circulation. Is the in the 1916 Maxwell of a cone clutch, snugly housed and running in a bath of ordinary lubricating- oil." says C. I Boss, local Maxwell dealer. "Just why nobody ever prouucea mis plan before is a. problem over which engineers generally are now Vainly castigating their souls. For the Max well plan has so many a-dvantages that even the tyro In machinery tan readily appreciate its value. S moot la Moat Important. 'Most Important Is the smoothness with which the oiled clutch can be engaged. It is almost impossible lor even a deliberately Tougn- anver 10 nan back the heads of his passengers by lunging the car forward after a stop. The oiled clutch cannot 'grab.' but must take hold gently, much to the comfort of those who ride behind it. An approach to this Maxwell smooth ness has been found in some cone clutch cars. the clutch-leathers of which have been laboriously soaked in neatsfoot oil. 'The constant renewal of this supply has always been a burden, however. and few motorists have been con scientious in giving their car this attention. Femuncsfe la Bis; Faetor. "Second in importance is the advan tage of permanence. By running the clutch in oil. the Maxwell engineers are able to dispense with, the leather facing usually used in cone clutches, and have substituted an almost in destructible piece of anti-friction fabric This fabric is heavily im pregnated with asbestos and cannot be burned out. Relieved of the fear of burning leather, the clever driver Is thereby assured ability to manipu late his clutch as he sees fit. slipping it intentionally whenever the process can ease the motor or increase the comfort of the car's passengers. The complication of a multiple-disc clutch always has been a bar to its adoption by manufacturers who build cars in large quantities. "The simplicity of the cone clutch has commended it for use on probably nine out of ten cars sold In the United States. With the enclosed feature and the oil bath, added by the Maxwell engineers, motorists have now at hand a device which, in the judgment of engineers, approaches close to perfection." DAIRY IjAXD SCHEME IS NEW Realty Company Sells 7 0 Acres in Willamette Valley. A new departure has been inaugu rated by the firm of Hartman & Thompson in developing the holdings of the Willamette Valley Irrigated Liand Company, located between Turner and West Stayton, into dairy farms. The plan is to sell the land to ex perienced dairymen without any in itial payment down, the buyer simply paying interest for the first two years, after which be commences bis pay ments on the land. The first excursion was run to the lands near Turner last Tuesday, and as a result several sales have been, completed totaling 70 acres. Charles Hunt, of Sherwood, bought 20 acres located next to the Edwards home, about a mile and a half from the town of Turner. K. R. Gribble, of Oervais, bought 30 acres with the George Moore residence, which is about two and one-half miles from Turner, and Edwin N. Hunt bought 20 acres adjoining the purchase of his father. He and his father will both build homes and barns between now and Spring and Mr. Gribble will move in this month. The excursionists drove about a mile further south to the place of John Fllosi. a young Austrian, who is irri gating 30 acres foe a dairy farm, and whose place stands out today like an oasis in the desert. Everything around is brown stubble of the oat fields, but Filosi's place, is a patch of green and the corn is so luxuriant that on ap proaching from the north the house is completely out of view and only the upper part of the roof shows, it is said. TIRES GIVIX-G MORE WEAR Precautions and Better Material Credited by Manufacturer. "The advance which has been made in automobile tire building can well be shown by a comparison of the tire of a few years ago with that of today." says C. H. Williams, branch manager, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. "Five years ago motorists were satis fied if their tires attained a mileage of 3500. Today no car owner would con sider such a performance satisfactory. Six thousand, 8000 and 10,000-mile tires are now common. Many have run much greater distances. "There are many reasons for this. The big tire companies of the country have succeeded in large measure in educating the motorists to care for their tires properly. This has had much to do with the more satisfactory results given by present-day tires. But there is no doubt that the tire manufactur er, are making better tires now than ever before. Tire engineers understand their requirements better. The relation of load to tire size and inflation is bet ter understood, and cars are now com ing out with more nearly adequate tire equipment than in the past." 2 50 Maxwell Cars Shipped Dally. The Maxwell Motor Company. Inc. is shipping daily from its Detroit plants a total of 250 cars of .the new 1316 typ a marked increase over the pro duction rate of the season recently Andtd. An eisrit-day watch, which tells tho 3ar of tho week and th month, is the product of a Belgian firm. The manufacturers claim that the time kept by the watch cannot vary more than ono minute- iu its cisbt riay run. WALTER'S FREE TIRE SERVICE SsJUfcj,'!' Put Thla tat Your Bat Anywhere within a 10-mile radios of our store, day and night, wo furnish ALL BRANDS of TIRES All you pay is regu lar retail price No service charge. DO NOT FEE SERVICE MAN Tube Vulcanizing Our Specialty John A. Walter Co., Inc. Broadway at Ankeny Broadway 2490 GASOLINE 11 c Monamobile Oil, Paraffine Base, Open Day and Night, at Same Price. Stanley Garage and Machine Works 14th and Burnside Phone Main 6922